Just a few notes from my adventures as a writer and a children's librarian.

Friday, March 17, 2017

No Snow here in Southern California

Did I ever mention how much I LOVE my little condo in southern California?

Minuses - close enough to the 5 ( I-5 for the east coasters) so that the traffic sound is always there. But when I close my double-pane windows, I pretend the waves of sound are the sound of the ocean.

Positives: I love seeing gre

en all the time even if it's palm trees and bamboo, ice plant and other strange growth (instead of grass).

Flowers all the time - different ones for every season but always there. (no snow to shovel. I've had enough of snow shoveling for a lifetime. If I want to see snow, I can see snow on the 6,000 feet high mountains just an hour away.)

I love being near my grown children and able to see them and their spouses (spice?) often.

I love my one-level condo with no stairs and its walk-in shower.Hurricanes (Cyclones over here in the west) never hit this area.Of course we also don't have much rain, and when we do the inhabitants panic because all the oil deposited on the roads during the dry weather lifts and causes hydroplaning.My oldest daughter kept encouraging us to move here and we're glad we did.